Nikola partners with E.ON to proliferate Europe with hydrogen fuel-cell heavy trucks. The plan calls for some 5,000 trucks to be on the road by 2027, with a further acceleration after that.
The expectation is that commercial trucks will evolve into a combination of FCEVs and BEVs depending on the needs of fleet managers in terms of cost management, distances traveled by respective trucks and payload efficiency.
The biggest obstacles to hydrogen taking off in the U.S. are the cost of fuel cells and insufficient refueling infrastructure.